Technology Leader Alternative Investments

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized awardwinning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

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Title: Technology Leader Alternative Investments

NT Asset Management technology team is seeking an experienced and dynamic technology leader to lead the delivery of technology solutions for our Alternative Investments business.

As a senior leader of the Investment Management Technology Practice you will be responsible to lead the team strategically and execute on various initiatives to deliver technology solutions that enables our Alts investments business across Private Markets and Hedge Funds.

You will work across technology and business teams maximizing performance levels agility and effectiveness through high degree of decision making communication empathetic leadership talent management and mentoring.

You will bring technical skills and solutioning experience including how of build vs buy 3rd party solutions in Alternative Investments domain.

Major Responsibilities:

• The candidate will build and foster strong relationships with business and technology partners and will be responsible for leading and developing a team that will be focused on delivering exceptional solutions and solving business challenges across the life cycle for Alternative Investments capabilities.
• You will be working with industry leading vended platforms and internal teams to define strategic technology roadmap to modernize optimize and transform technology solutions to provide more efficient tools and overall partner experience.
• You will be focused on maximizing the value of services delivered to business and collaborating with stakeholders to align business strategies with strategic technology programs and initiatives.
• The candidate will also focus on improving communications and overall engagement with business partners on a daytoday basis and building longterm relationships between business partners and technology stakeholders that foster trust and transparency.
• Aligns technology strategy with businessbased decisions and fosters consensus at all levels of the organization to ensure the achievement of business objectives.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Data teams to create roadmaps that enable business growth and the future state of the business.
• Plan evaluate and hire great talent. Set the performance standards and provide mentoring and training to develop and grow direct reports.
• Ensures compliance with all audit security and risk management requirements.
• Invests significant efforts to keep selfupdated with fintech emerging products/technology capabilities to integrate as off the shelf products to find optimum solutions and be able to advise build vs buy options.
• Should be able to work in a fluid and dynamic environment and understand how to effectively communicate complex concepts that can be understood by senior leaders.

Education

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science analytical and/or business field of study required; Masters degree Financial certification such as CFA or MBA is a strong plus.

Professional Qualifications

• 15 yrs experience leading and working on large complex programs / projects in Asset Management Data and Technology.
• Understanding of alternative investments especially Private Equity and Hedge Funds and investment/financial technology systems within a large scale Asset Management setting
• Experience leading large multifunctional application transformation workstreams delivering measurable outcomes and business value including risk reduction resiliency simplification reduced total cost of ownership.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability drive alignment across diverse teams and stakeholders both internal and external
• Experience with Alternative Investments vended platforms such as Backstop iCapital Allvue Subscribe Dealcloud Chronograph etc.
• Track record of hiring developing and engaging a diverse and highperforming teams and managing performance by driving a culture of accountability.
• Experience with range of technologies including database experience working with vast amounts of data building and integrating APIs into platforms Micro services architecture Client facing application development Java/Python Public and Private cloud architecture.
• Proficiency with Agile (Scrum/SAfe) and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• A background in conducting team gatherings distributing action points and responsibilities and overseeing the comprehensive progress of projects with strong experience using Jira and Confluence

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits 401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and wellbeing benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve!Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us andapply today.#MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

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We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.